A Grim Almanac Of Suffolk
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A Grim Almanac Of Suffolk
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Author : Neil R. Storey
language : en
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Release Date : 2004-05-01
A Grim Almanac Of Suffolk written by Neil R. Storey and has been published by History Press (SC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with Suffolk (England) categories.
This day-by-day look at the darker side of Sussex's past includes diverse tales of highwaymen, smugglers, murderers, footpads, poachers, rioters and rebels. This sordid cast of characters is deservedly accompanied by accounts of old gaols, bridewells and punishments, as well a liberal smattering of death omens, disasters and peculiar medicine.
A Grim Almanac Of Essex
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Author : Neil R. Storey
language : en
Publisher: In Old Photographs
Release Date : 2005-08
A Grim Almanac Of Essex written by Neil R. Storey and has been published by In Old Photographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with Crime categories.
Did you know? Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, was born at Manningtree in the 1620s, Dick Turpin, the country's most notorious highwayman, was born at Thaxted in 1705 and the nation's longest serving hangman, William Calcraft, who served his office between 1829 and 1874, was born at Little Baddow near Chelmsford. Agnes Waterhouse, the ......
A Grim Almanac Of Essex
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Author : Neil R Storey
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-12-01
A Grim Almanac Of Essex written by Neil R Storey and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Reference categories.
Neil R. Storey's macabre calendar chronicles the darker side of life in Essex. Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre funerals, disaster and peculiar medicine all feature. The book is illustrated with engravings, newspaper reports, photographs and original documents. It is horrible, if it is ghastly, if it is strange, then it is here! If you have the stomach for it, then read on.
A Grim Almanac Of Birmingham
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Author : Karen Evans
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2015-05-04
A Grim Almanac Of Birmingham written by Karen Evans and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with History categories.
Discover 366 gruesome tales from Birmingham's past. With appalling accidents, frightful crimes and extraordinary deaths, there's something to surprise even the most hardened reader. Featured here is the man who deliberately swallowed his wooden walking stick, a nineteenth-century horsemeat scandal, a drunken dispute that led to a man being stabbed in the eye with a table fork, and the lightning storm which hit a fog-signalling factory, setting off 43,000 explosions. True accounts of fires, catastrophes, murders, executions and a variety of nasty goings-on in the Birmingham of yesteryear await you within.
A Grim Almanac Of Herefordshire
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Author : Nicola Sly
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2012-01-31
A Grim Almanac Of Herefordshire written by Nicola Sly and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Reference categories.
A Grim Almanac of Herefordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of Herefordshire's past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of murderers, bodysnatchers, duelists, poachers, rioters and rebels. Joining them are accounts of tragic suicides, accidents and bizarre deaths, including William Prosser, who died in Clodock in 1893 as the result of a practical joke; the farmer bitten to death by his horse in 1887; and the young man from Colwall who allegedly sat on a spike. Also here is the case of a Yorkshire tramp, whose body was found in Weobley in 1894, and the murders and suicide of Charles Hankins and his two young children in Ledbury in 1896. Some killers were lucky to get away with charges of manslaughter, such as Thomas Carlyle, who shot a coachman near Leominster in 1871, and George Hatton, who rid himself of a nagging wife near Ross in 1893. All these, plus tales of fires, catastrophes, explosions and disasters, are here. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Herefordshire's grim past. Read on... if you dare!
A Grim Almanac Of Staffordshire
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Author : Karen Evans
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-03-03
A Grim Almanac Of Staffordshire written by Karen Evans and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with History categories.
A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of murders, this almanac explores the darker side of Staffordshire's past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of freak weather, bizarre deaths and terrible accidents, including the young girl cut to pieces by a machinery explosion, the tragic deaths of 155 men in the Minnie Pit disaster of 1918, and the theatre performance where the gun really did go off, mangling the actor's hand and causing a severed finger to fly across the stage. Uncover tales of fires, catastrophes, suicides, thefts and executions – it's all here. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Staffordshire's grim past. Read on ... if you dare!
A Grim Almanac Of The Workhouse
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Author : Peter Higginbotham
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-02-01
A Grim Almanac Of The Workhouse written by Peter Higginbotham and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Social Science categories.
For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced inside the institution's towering walls. This book contains 365 incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions and disasters, infamous scandals such as the Andover affair – where inmates were forced to eat the bones they were supposed to be crushing to ward off starvation – and sickening tales of abuse, assault, bodysnatching, poisonings, post mortems and murder. Accompanied by 70 rare and wonderful illustrations, this book will thrill, fascinate, sadden and unnerve in equal measure. DID YOU KNOW? In the early hours of 31 August 1888, the mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols – the first generally accepted victim of Jack the Ripper – was discovered in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, just a little way from the Whitechapel workhouse infirmary. Nichols, aged forty-two at her death, had been a regular habituée of London's workhouses. On 30 May 1896, at the age of seven, future Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin entered the Newington workhouse in south London, together with his mother, Hannah, and his older half-brother Sydney. On 19 March 1834 a revolt took place amongst the juvenile female paupers of St Margaret's workhouse, Westminster. A young man named Speed, appointed as their superintendent, provoked their wrath by his alleged tyrannical behaviour. He was unmercifully thrashed by the girls who tore his clothes nearly off his back and beat him until his cries raised the alarm and the police were sent for to quell the disturbance.
A Grim Almanac Of Oxfordshire
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Author : Nicola Sly
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-02-01
A Grim Almanac Of Oxfordshire written by Nicola Sly and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with History categories.
A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from the county's past. There are murders and manslaughters, including the killing by Mrs Barber of her entire family in 1909 while temporarily insane, and the brutal murder of four-year-old Edward Busby in 1871, killed by his mother to prevent his father ill-treating him. There are bizarre deaths, including those of four-year-old Charles Taylor, who was accidentally kicked clean through a top storey window in 1844 by a child playing on a swing, George Sheppard, who was struck by a cricket ball during a match in 1905, and of the vicar of Bucknell, who starved himself to death in 1935. There is an assortment of calamities which include strange and unusual crimes, devastating fires, rail crashes, explosions, disasters, mysteries, freak weather and a plethora of uncanny accidents. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Oxfordshire's grim past. Delve into the dreadful deeds of Oxford's past, if you dare...
The Little Book Of Suffolk
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Author : Neil R Storey
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
The Little Book Of Suffolk written by Neil R Storey and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Suffolk folk or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome the reader will have such knowledge of the county, its landscape, people, places, pleasures and pursuits they will be entertained and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance conversation or quiz! A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
A Grim Almanac Of Leicestershire
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Author : Nicola Sly
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
A Grim Almanac Of Leicestershire written by Nicola Sly and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Reference categories.
A Grim Almanac of Leicestershire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 macabre moments from the county's past. Featured here are such diverse tales as mining disasters, freak weather conditions, industrial catastrophes, train crashes and tragic accidents, including the Oadby woman who was killed by a wasp sting in 1925 and Dorothy Cain, who performed her first ever parachute jump in 1926 — without her parachute. Among the murders detailed in this volume are the assisted suicide of the vicar of Hungerton in 1925, and the unsolved 'Green Bicycle Murder' of 1919 at Little Stretton. Generously illustrated with 100 pictures, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Leicestershire's grim past. Read on... if you dare!